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The Coming Renaissance of the Second Culture
Terrible events occur in history that devastate the cities that our minds build. The Barbarians sack…
Poem: Two voices vie in my head
This poem is a dialogue about how we are to act in this moment of cultural…
Poem: la noche oscura
la noche oscura Not darkness, obscurity.Not shadow, life with no light. Not grasping at goals, but…
Captain Ahab and Lockdown in Melbourne
Historians (and I am one) will search for cultural archetypes that explain the strange delusions of…
Poem: The personal is poetical
Today a poem composed in the conviction that to save our culture we must diminish the…
Poem: Breathless
Today I am posting another poem from The Sleep Machine. Breathless Could it be the new…
Poem: Curfew, Melbourne 2020
Curfew, Melbourne 2020 Unimaginable city, locked down in its dark tomb,Its streets masked for an uncommon…
Poem: the way out machine
The way out machine I enclose my breath in a maskIn the distance we keep for…
Poem: Another generation passes me by
Another generation passes me by Another generation passes me byI sit and know my time will…
Poem: The Burning Archive – the beginning
THE BURNING ARCHIVE – THE BEGINNING At last the Grand Inquisitor said:Let the archives burn. The…